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Researchers Discover Possible Link between Diet and Back Injuries

February 2, 2018

Healthy eating could decrease risk of vertebral fractures, especially in women

Novel Technologies Reveal Key Information About Depleted East Pacific Green Sea Turtles

January 30, 2018

New habitat data show turtles are spending more time offshore, increasing their risk as fishing bycatch

Lab-Grown Bone Cell Breakthrough Heralds New Benefits for Orthopedics

September 13, 2017

Scientists have grown three-dimensional samples of mineralized bone in the laboratory for the first time

Farming, Cheese, Chewing Changed Human Skull Shape

August 30, 2017

Humans who live by hunting and foraging wild foods have to put more effort into chewing than people living from farming, who ...

Treating Arthritis with Algae

August 24, 2017

A new weapon in the fight against arthritis?

CRISPR Sheds Light on Rare Pediatric Bone Marrow Failure Syndrome

July 31, 2017

Gene editing reveals how the disease impairs formation of blood cells

What Bone Proteomics Could Reveal about the Dead

May 24, 2017

A new study of pig bones suggests that proteins extracted from skeletal remains could act as biomarkers of the age of an anim...

Engineered Bone Marrow Could Make Transplants Safer

May 10, 2017

The bone-like implant gives donor cells their own space to live and grow without competition, eliminating the need to wi...

Flawed Forensic Science May Be Hampering Identification of Human Remains

April 27, 2017

The presence of parturition scars—marks often found on female pelvis bones—have commonly been used as an indicato...

A Moldable Scaffold for Bone

April 11, 2017

Bioactive foam can be molded to skull bone lost to injury, surgery, or birth defect

New Bone Regeneration Technology Has Wide-Ranging Benefit

March 7, 2017

Technology successful in healing injury in bull could eventually help people suffering from a variety of severe injuries...

Human Ancestor ‘Lucy’ Was a Tree Climber

December 2, 2016

Analysis of the partial fossilized skeleton, investigators say, shows that Lucy’s upper limbs were heavily built, simil...

The Dark Side of 'Junk' DNA

November 2, 2016

Repeating DNA sequences play a role in bone cancer

Chemists Devise Revolutionary 3D Bone-Scanning Technique

September 9, 2016

The chemists attach luminescent compounds to tiny gold structures to form biologically safe ‘nanoagents’ that are...

The Fourth State of Matter, Plasma: A Technology to Improve Bone Healing?

August 15, 2016

Tuning cold plasma can either promote or inhibit bone formation

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